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Great minds think alike Mr Dean! See page 46. And from this quarter, all seven versions of Compass are available online too at...
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Launches 51 Lives rescued 52 NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour...
Category: Services
WE feel sure that the accompanying illustration will prove of interest to our readers. It is a photograph taken on the occasion of the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York to the Lizard Life-boat, which was...
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a r o u n d and a b o u t t h e RNLI King of the draw The names of the 20 lucky prize winners in the RNLI's 52nd national lottery were plucked from the drum on 31 January by Desmond Carrington, well-known actor and Radio 2 presenter.<...
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17' 6" model of a Watson lifeboat, built from all kinds of scrap material by boys ami girls of Romford and Dagenliam Model Boat Club. The club, affiliated to the Dagcnliain branch of the RNLI, has so far raised £850 with this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—In response to signals, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 2.40 a.m. on the 16th September, and found the fishing-smack Boy Nicholas, of Lowestoft, aground on the East Cross Sand, where she had stranded in a thick...
A CINEMA which had helped the In- stitution by showing one of its films asked in return if the Institution could lend it a flag with skull and crossbones.
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NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....
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Second Coxswain William Mowat, of Longhope, and Mr. Edward Bensley, of Gorleston.
Two life-boatmen died last October, each of whom had the remarkable record of fifty-three years' service in the life-boat. One was...
Category: Obituaries